Superintendent success, as we all know, is the result of mastering multiple competencies. Many of these competencies seem logical for an educational leader, but others are paradoxical. Although certain of these competencies can hold the power to control our destiny, we often don’t think about them from this perspective. In a paper titled Exemplary Superintendents’ Experience with Trust, written by two professors from Northern Arizona University (Drs. Frank Davidson and Thomas Hughes), they outline a few of these skills which I believe we can learn from as we seek to better understand superintendent competence. The skills can be seen as …